My new blue shrimp is pregnant!

[cymrufem]

sed, your baby shrimps are beautiful! You mention the variation in sizes. My blue cray mommy Agatha Lu had a brood of approx. 150 on Nov. 1st. The size variance is enormous............some are a good 2 inches long, and others are less than half an inch long, with everyone else somewhere in between. It is super weird! Also, she had many more boys than girls, prolly a good 80/20% ratio of M/F.
Invert reproduction, ya just gotta love it!

 

[sed03f]

oh, wow, thats very interesting, and makes a lot of sense now, thanks for sharing. some of the tiny ones are already showing a stripe down their back, I can see them growing by the day, very exciting, good luck with your cray babies

 

[msjinkzd]

As for your food question, I only have fed the color enhancing foods to a select group of my "blue/black" shrimp in order to see if it made any difference. Ken's fish has some micro pellets available with naturose in it that you could try, or he sells the bulk powder (2oz for $7) for you to formulate or mix your own foods.

 

[sed03f]

Here are some recent pics of the babies, they are getting so big!!!!! I counted about 40 of them the other day. I was not aware they had so many eggs at one time. The babies are very clear, but sometimes seem almost a little metallic at times. They are not fed any color enhancers yet. I was planning on maybe feeding them color enhancers on the next generation. And definitely photograph the changes.

 

[sed03f]

They are getting so big

 

[msjinkzd]

Looking great!

 

[sed03f]

Some of the babies are already pregnant! Well, I guess they are not babies anymore, wow, they grow up fast. I counted 3 pregnant ones today.

 

[sed03f]

Well, I have 3rd generation babies now! I have only seen two babies, but Im sure in a few weeks, more will appear. These guys really start showing their markings as they get older. They are not very impressive as babies, but I am very satisfied with the adult markings. Almost all of them have the bold stripes down their backs with speckles.

 

[bluekrissyspike]

ever cool!! and that pink snail is amazing.

 

[bettabrat]

They are so pretty! What substrate are you using I like that, makes their colors pop!